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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 1, Fable 14</span><span class="fp-text">LE CORDONNIER DEVENU MÉDECIN</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber I, Fabula XIV</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">EX SUTORE MEDICUS</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un mauvais Cordonnier, perdu de misère, mourant de faim,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">alla exercer la médecine dans un pays où il n'était pas connu,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il vendait un faux antidote,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et son verbiage lui eut bientôt fait un renom.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le roi de la ville, qu'une grave maladie retenait au lit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">voulut mettre son savoir à l'épreuve.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Il demanda une coupe, y versa de l'eau, et feignit</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">de mêler du poison à l'antidote du prétendu médecin ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">puis il lui ordonna de boire, lui promettant une récompense.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">La peur de la mort fit alors avouer à notre homme</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">que ce n'était pas à ses talents en médecine,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais à la sottise du vulgaire, qu'il devait sa réputation.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le roi assemble les habitants, et leur dit&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Voyez la folie qui vous aveugle ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">vous allez confier vos tètes</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">à celui à qui personne n'a voulu donner ses pieds à chausser.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n73/mode/1up">p.10</a>]</span> Malus cum sutor inopia deperditus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">medicinam ignoto facere coepisset loco</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et venditaret falso <span class="fp-correction" title="anthidotum  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">antidotum</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="antidotum  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">anthidotum</span></span> nomine,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">verbosis <span class="fp-correction" title="adquesivit  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">adquisivit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="adquisivit  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">adquesivit</span></span> sibi famam <span class="fp-correction" title="strofis  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">strophis</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="strophis  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">strofis</span></span>.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hic cum jaceret morbo confectus gravi</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">rex urbis, ejus experiendi gratia</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">scyphum poposcit&nbsp;: fusa deinde simulans aqua</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">miscere <span class="fp-correction" title="anthidoto  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">antidoto</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="antidoto  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">anthidoto</span></span> illius se toxicum,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">bibere jussit ipsum, posito <span class="fp-correction" title="premio  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">praemio</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="praemio  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">premio</span></span>.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Timore mortis ille tum confessus est</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">non artis ulla medicum se prudentia,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">verum stupore vulgi factum nobilem.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Rex advocata contione haec addidit&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;<span class="fp-correction" title="Quante  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">Quantae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Quantae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Quante</span></span> putatis esse vos dementiae</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">qui capita vestra non dubitatis credere</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">cui <span class="fp-correction" title="calcandos  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">calceandos</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="calceandos  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">calcandos</span></span> nemo commisit pedes&nbsp;?&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ceci regarde, à mon avis, ceux qui,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">par leur sottise, enrichissent l'impudence.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hoc pertinere vere ad illos dixerim</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quorum stultitiae <span class="fp-correction" title="questus  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">quaestus</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quaestus  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">questus</span></span> inprudentia est.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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